"For a philosophy based on faith is no longer philosophy. Perhaps it was this unresolved conflict which has prevented Western thought from ever coming to rest. Perhaps it is this conflict which is at the bottom of a kind of thought which is philosophic indeed but no longer Greek: modern philosophy. It is in trying to understand modern philosophy that we come across Machiavelli. Machiavelli is the only political thinker whose name has come into common use for designating a kind of politics, which exists and will continue to exist independently of his influence, a politics guided exclusively by considerations of 'expediency, which uses all means, fair or foul, iron or poison, for achieving its ends-its end being the agĀgrandizement of one's country or fatherland-but also using the fatherĀ land in the service of the self-aggrandizement of the politician or statesman or one's party."
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Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 ā October 18, 1973) was a German-born American philosopher who specialized in the study of classical political philosophy.
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